Anyone who's shocked that AOL is giving up on Bebo will probably feel a lot more understanding after viewing new stats from Hitwise. Indeed, the real question a graph seems to raise is not whether AOL's right to back away, but whether any potential buyers will surface. View the carnage for yourself below. As you can see, Bebo's had rather few "up" weeks in the UK since June of 2007, even though Ireland was traditionally one of the markets in which it was most successful.